I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Meta in Mar 2012
Interview
The recruiter first emailed me to confirm a time for a telephone call. The call from recruiter was not for interview, she just told me their hiring and interview process, gave some basic suggestions for interview and finally confirmed a time for the first phone interview. After the first phone interview I got the second phone interview in one week and stopped here.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a m*n grid starting from (1, 1). At any point (x, y), you has two choices for the next move:
1) move to (x+y, y);
2) move to (x, y+x);
From point (1, 1), how to move to (m, n) in least moves? (or there's no such a path)
Took about a month altogether, which felt longer given the intensity of the process. Kicked off with a technical screening, followed by two rigorous coding interviews. The DSA question on binary tree vertical order traversal hit me hard at first, but then I recognized the prompt instantly — I had just worked through something similar on PracHub. The final round was focused on system design, and while I ended up receiving an offer, I ultimately declined it. Overall, a challenging experience that definitely sharpened my skills.
Overall, the process took a little over two weeks, which felt a bit longer than I anticipated. After a quick screening, I went through two technical rounds focusing on coding and DSA concepts. One of the questions was a classic palindrome check; mid-way through, I realized it was something I had practiced on PracHub just days earlier. The final step was a casual behavioral interview. I was relieved to get an offer shortly after, which I happily accepted.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a string, determine if it is a valid palindrome considering only alphanumeric characters and ignoring case.
I applied online. I interviewed at Meta (Menlo Park, CA)
Interview
It's honestly striaght from leetcode tagged
There are no surprises if you do tagged you would be good and do well.
System design is much harder. Would recommend using hello interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design Twitter and consider if it was suddenly an extremely low latency env